For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War. Mc Pherson is acclaimed as one of the finest historians writing today and a preeminent commentator on the Civil War. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning a
This book details the life of an average Volunteer, and includes the experiences of internment, the lack of established medical facilities for wounded, life on the run, discipline, and typical duties. Armed rebellion against the British Crown, t
The Earth Is the Lord's: The Inner World of the Jew in Eastern Europe: 0.
Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight: New Sources of Indian-Military History. Flying Hawk, Standing Bear, He Dog, Red Feather, Moving Robe Woman, Eagle Elk, White Bull, Hollow Horn Bear, and other Indian survivors of the Custer
This concluding title in a four-volume series covers Waffen-SS divisions 24 to 38, and the Volunteer Legions; many of these were short-lived units, and composed of men from many different nations, cultures and backgrounds. By 1945 the SS had gro
First published in 1985, this is a book written at the height of the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s. This is a book in the finest tradition of war reporting on the front line and the reissue is essential reading for all those interested
Key Features: * Focused case studies featuring key texts, genres, writers, artists and cultural trends * Chronology of 1950s American Culture * Bibliographies for each chapter * over twenty illustrations. The book provides an intellectual contex
Brand: Cornell University Press (9780801485589)
War and the Liberal Conscience: The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures in the University of Cambridge.
The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century: The History of the World. Despite a terrible two-stage 'European civil war' and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased dramatically alongside a four-fold leap in popula
The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System. The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global hist
In Labor of Love, Moira Weigel dives into the secret history of dating while holding up a mirror to the contemporary dating landscape, revealing why we date the way we do and explaining why it feels so much like work. This is a bri
University of Oklahoma Press (9780806134727 / illustrations)
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains. The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Even in our supposedly disenchanted scientific age, th
Supported by official documents, personal accounts, official drawings and specially commissioned artwork, this volume is an informative history of the key classes Kaiser, Konig and Bayern that formed the backbone of the German Imperial Navy thro
The Cuba Reader also describes life in the periodo especial following the cutoff of Soviet aid and the tightening of the U.S. It provides a look at Cuba in relation to the rest of the world: the effect of its revolution on Latin America a
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The Sri Lanka Reader is a sweeping introduction to the epic history of the island nation located just off the southern tip of India. This wide-ranging anthology covers the aboriginal Veddhas, the earliest known inhabitants of the island;
The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan.
How the War Was Won: Air-Sea Power and Allied Victory in World War II. Battles such as El Alamein, Stalingrad and Kursk did not win World War II; air and sea power did. He shows how the Allies developed a predominance of air
Holocaust Landscapes provides a new perspective surrounding the shifting geographies and histories of this continent-wide event. The theme of Tim Cole's Holocaust Landscapes concerns the geography of the Holocaust; the Holocaust
Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece. Salonica's Jews-Zionists, assimilationists, and socialists-reinvigorated their connection to the city and claimed it as their own until the Holocaust. Written in Ladino, Greek
Crimes Unspoken: The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War. Crimes Unspoken is the first historical account to expose the true extent of sexual violence in Germany at the end of the war, offering valuable n
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In this lavishly illustrated book well-known environmental historian Alfred Runte, a prominent figure on the Ken Burns documentary The National Parks: America's Best Idea, tells the highly engaging story of the development of our national
Peace Weavers: Uniting the Salish Coast Through Cross-Cultural Marriages.
Margin of Victory: Five Battles That Changed the Face of Modern War.
Warmongers: How Leaders and Their Unnecessary Wars Have Wrecked the Modern World. Warmongers is designed to challenge assumptions; and to provoke discussion about when and in what circumstances force is ever really justified- so pertinent at a t
Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POWs in Vietnam. The classic account of the abandonment of American POWs in Vietnam by the US government. In this explosive book, Monika Jensen-Stevenson and William Ste
Gifts for the Gods: Ancient Egyptian Animal Mummies and the British. Gifts for the Gods is an enlightening and richly illustrated book on animal mummies from ancient Egypt. Introducing readers to the wealth of
These have become known as the Wars of the Roses. But there never was a red rose of Lancaster ...This book sets the record straight on this and many other points, getting behind the traditional mythology and reaching right back into the origins
It takes the reader through the aviation ages, charting the early years of flight in the First World War, through to the Second World War and then the golden age of British jet aircraft in the 1950s and 60s before finishing in the modern
The Mc Donnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet is probably the world's most advanced air superiority fighter/attack aircraft, currently in service with the US Navy, the US Marine Corps, the Spanish, Australian, Swiss and Canadian air forces, as well as wit
